This last lesson ends with Maanii writing on the blackboard a list of ten items that sum up what it is to be a good Thai citizen: 1. Love the country, religion, and the monarchy. 2. Preserve our beautiful traditions. 3. Obey your parents and teachers. 4. Speak nicely. 5. Know what it is to be generous and to repay the favors of others. 6. Be or ...…

In this lesson the important cultural notion of "group" is in play with the expressions "our group" พวกเรา and your group พวกเธอ. Teacher Pailin reinforces Thai cultural values by reviewing the things that the children รู้จัก "know how to do" (to think and do), not simply รู้ "knowing facts and figures". Grammar-wise, we see the use of the supe ...…

In this lesson Teacher Pailin continues to instill virtues of being a good citizen and ensuring that "our country must be clean" บ้านเมืองของเราต้องสะอาด. A contrast between the formal conditional "if" หาก and the informal "if" ถ้า is made.

In this lesson, one sees that the discontinuous construction of บอกกับนักเรียนว่า "telling someone that" is similar to English structure: The expressions กำลังจะ "about to" and ใกล้จะ "almost to" or "near to" both combine with the "future" particle จะ

In this lesson the word อย่าง can be used as a noun/measure classifier for "things" or to change an adjective to an adverb as in อย่างระวัง "carefully." Notice the contrast in the use of เป็น "to be/in/as" found in the expression เป็นแกว "in a line," and "to be something wrong," as in เป็นอะไร Mani and Chujai use the less formal polite particle ...…

In this lesson the "repeat symbol" ๆ is used to show that the word or phrase it follows is spoken twice (notice its similarity in shape to the Thai numeral "two" ๒ ), indicating plurality, intensifying, i.e. "very, really," or creating an adverbial. Several semantic doublets appear: สวยงาม "pretty", กวาด ถู "sweep and polish," สนุกสนาน "fun", แ ...…

This lesson teaches the days of the week. Note the spoken word for week is อาทิตย์; here the formal, usually written, term สัปดาห์ is used. Likewise "Thursday in everyday speech is วันพฤหัส, but the formal term is วันพฤหัสบดี. Three semantic doublets appear: "fields" ทุ่งนา; "neat and tidy, well-behaved, ready" เรียบร้อย; and "disordered, confu ...…

In this lesson, you should pay close attention to the following: 1) two "heart words" - ตั้งใจ and ชอบใจ 2) the "irregular" spelling (and pronounciation) of ชาติ and สัตว์. The short "i" vowel above a word-final ต is not pronounced. Likewise, the final ว with the superscript "karan" is silent. The noun ตน refers to the self, "me, mine, myself." ...…

In this lesson, you will learn more about Thai culture. Before going to school and after coming back from school, children will "wai" their parents and other elder people in the family. Parents, then, give them blessing.

In this lesson, the three children, Maanii, Choojai, and Piti meet with the school's principal and their teacher, Kroo Pailin. The Thai way of greeting, "Wai" is repeated in the chapter, and is not limited to merely children. Notice that younger people will "wai" elders first.

You will meet a new character, Weera, in this lesson. Three pronouns "ฉัน" (I), " ,มัน" (it), " เขา" (he/she/they), a new consonant ฮ /h/, a new vowel - ึ, and the rising tone mark / -๋ / are also introduced.

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